[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/22/2014 05:00 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Changing the file-ending doesn't change the format of the data itself within the file. I tried editing the url address to replace csv with ods and a file did get downloaded but it wasn't really an ods - just some sort of text file which Calc

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/22/2014 11:05 AM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-22 Thread V Stuart Foote
Not sure about that. Have a look at comment #5 in fdo#69320 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69320 I followed along with that and was able to insert source link, and the cell(s) receive the value(s) from the external .CSV resource. -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Link to external data question

2014-08-21 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/21/2014 03:16 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: I would like to import some stock quotes from finance.yahoo.com into a calc sheet. As a test I select cell A1 Insert--Link to External Data and I get the External Data dialog Put http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPLf=a in the